The Sun. — London, England, 1838-01-10 00:00:00

cloned all claim on the part of the British nation to appropriate These Statutes were rendered nugatory by a mere the money of the Co r l es e o s ni ol resolution of the House of Commons, e au thorising the Ministers to plunder the people of Canada. The House of Lords sanctioned this resolution. When did they refuse their assent to an act of public robbery ?—(Cries of Never,") Never,") These resolutions were, however, no repeal of the Statutes to which he had adverted ; and when Lord John Russell and Lord Melbourne were arraigned for treason, ar sop, robbery, and murder, they could not plead these resolu tions as a justification of their crimes. The Whig Ministers having obtained the consent of their Tory allies to rob the people of Canada, proceeded to carry out their conspiracy to plunder. They seized the money of the Canadians, and the defence set up by the Morning Chronicle was this--her Majesty's :Ministers had a temporary occasion for the money, to pay Colonial sinecurists, and had therefore taken it ; as if he were to put his hand into the pocket of the gentleman next him, take out his money, and calmly remark, " Oh, I had only a temporary occasion for your money, and you must not think this a robbery." Such was the miserable pickpocket excuse set up by the Ministry of this great nation for robbing the people of a distant part of the empire.--(Cries of " Shame.") His friend O'Connor had well told them what were the class of persons who were benefitted by this plunder. They were Colonial retainers of Lords and Lordlings, who were fed on Colonial plunder, so that their relatives in the Parliament Houses here might get the mercenary votes of twenty or thirty Members in the House of Commons or in the House of Lords, to enable them to plunder the people in this country.--( Hear.) The Canadians were naturally indignant at this robbery and demanded redress. The Ministers pro ceeded from robbery to murder. They had ordered their mercenary soldiers, and more mercenary soldier-officers, to murder the people —to burn them alive—and for vengeance sake to burn down whole villages.—( Hear.) Think of that of the hundreds of our fellow men burned alive in one house. Had any one hero any interest in that atrocity ?—( Cries of " No.") Had any working man in England, Scotland, or Ireland, any wish to see such an atrocity?—( Cries of " No.") It was perpetrated solely to please a part of that same gang of people-plunderers which desolates this nation. One hun dred men, each of whom was worth a thousand Russells, Peels, or Melbournes, burned alive !—possibly amongst them the father or brother of my young friend, who has addressed you with so much feeling eloquence, quickened, perhaps, from the fact that all his family are emigrants in the colony which the British Ministry have involved in civil war! What must be his feelings when he thinks of the father whom he adored—whose voice, after years of absence, he hoped to hear again, burned to death—of the brother of his love a vic tim to the flames ! What must be the mother's sensations when she thinks of her glorious son, her pride and stay in life, no longer to be folded in her maternal embrace ; no more in all the joy and gladness of life, but a blackened coal ! What must be the agony of the faithful wife, when the body she has so often strained to her bosom in love, pure and holy love, is nothing snore than a heap of ashes—the limbs and human form that father, mother, wife, and sister, hava so often contem plated with love, are reduced to cinders, after passing through the agony of death by fire!—(Hear,) Heavens! this is the work of the British cation ?—( Cries of " No, no.") You are right, it is, not the work of the British nation, but of the accursed Whig Ministry and their detestable allies.—( Hear. ) Think not, my friends, that these acts shall go unavenged. Lord Gosford and Sir John Colborne shall yet be put on their trial in Westminster Hall, and, being condemned, be hanged for their crimes under the same statute under which suffered Governor Wall ; albeit, he, too, was protected in his atrocious acts by the Minister of the day. As was Wall hanged, so should Gosford and Colborne.—(Cheers.) And justice would not be done them unless Russell and Melbourne, and Peel were hanged along with them.-_( Great cheering. ) The day of reti ibution and vengeance should yet come for houses and villages burned, and for avowed vindictiveness, and men burned alive to please Ministerial despots. As for the de claration of martial law by Ministers, that proceeding was clearly illegal. The only power which could put a colony having a Con stitution under martial law was a council of war, composed of the Governor, the Legislative Council, and the Legislative As sembly ; in other words, the Parliament of the colony. That formality had not been complied with, and therefore the usurped authority of the Governor in putting the colony under martial law, at the illegal order of the Whig Ministry, was an additional crime, and no palliation of the treasons, murders, robberies, and arsons for which he shall yet be tried and hanged.—( Loud cheering.) Now, my friends, you are here the representatives of British justice ; you know the defence set up by the Ministers through their hired advocate of the press —you have heard my charges against them, and have weighed the evidence. How say you—are John Russ ll (commonly called Lord John Russell), and Lord Viscount Melbourne guilty of treason, robbery, arson and murder__or are they net guilty ?—(Cries of " Guilty.") Such of you as ~i ve your verdict of guilty, hold up your bands.--( Here the whole meeting held up their hands.) Harken to your verdict —you say the monsters are guilty of murder, treason, robbery, and arson, and so you say all._ (Cries of " Yes, yes, we do.") Oh, my friends, how I wish I could give effect to your most righteous verdict by pro nouncing judgment of death and execution according to law cat these detestable violators of the laws of God and man ! ( Cries of " Hear, hear," and loud cheer:.) After shew ing hew the Canedisn civil war must affect our com merce, and so the wages of %waking men, and culcgieing the Canadians for their manly assertion o f their rights, he concluded by expressing his detestation of all war, as being only accu mulated murder; but in struggling for liberty it was glorious to spill the life of the enemy of freedom, or to 3 ield up one's own-- " Blood like this, For liberty shed so holy-- It would not stain the purest rill Which sparkles amidst the bowers of bliss. Oh, if th-re be on the earth's sphere A boon, An offering Heal , 'n holds dear, 'Tis the last libatiun liberty draws Prom the heart which bleeds and breaks in her cause." Loud and long continued cheering.) The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. It was then intiarted that a dinner would take place on the following evening, which was expected to be very numerously attended. Thanks havinz been voted to the Chairman for his able and impartial conc.'uctia the chair, the meeting quietly dispersed at a vtry late hour. WINDSORLTUESDAY. Viscount Duncannon, and the Hon. Miss Pomonby arrived at the Castle yesterday ; as did also Lord and Lady John Russell and family. The persons present at the Royal dinner party yesterday evening were —The Queen, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Countess Mulgrave, Viscount Duncannon, and the Hon. Miss Ponsonby, Viscount Melbourne, Lady Mary Stop ford, Visco un t T orr i ngton, Hon. Misses Leycester, Davys, Murray, and Cavendish, Lord and Lady J. Russell, Baroness Lehzen, Hon. William Cowper, Hon. Mrs. Campbell, Hon. Colonel Grey, Baron St:)ekm-tr, and the Hon. Colonel Ca vendish. 'I he Queen's chamber-musicians were in attendance, in the music-room after dinner as usual, and performed several favourite compositions during the evening. Viscount Melbourne left the Castle this morning for town ; the Hon. William Cowper also left ; and the Countess of Mulgrave, the term cf her Ladyship's waiting having expired. The Queen was out yesterday for some time, but the weather was so unfavourable to-day that her Majesty did not leave the Castle. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge li:sited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House, and also the Princess Sophia, at Kensington Palace. Viscount Melbourne, accompanied by his private secretary, the Hon. William Cowper, arrived in town at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Windsor Castle. The noble Viscount, after his arrival, visited Lord Glenelg at the Colonial-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has arrived at South hill-park, Berks, the seat of the Earl of Limerick, on his way to town, from Weston House, Chipping Norton. The Right Hon. Gentleman, and Lady Theodosia Spring Rice, have removed from Mansfield-street to Downing -street. The Grecian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Viscount Palmerston has arrived at his seat, Broadlands, Hants, from Brocket-hall. The Earl and Countess of Lindsey, and the Rev. P. W. Pegus, arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave street, yesterday, from Uffington, Lincolnshire. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are expected n town to-morrow. The Earl Spencer has arrived at Wiseton Hall, in Yorkshire, to inspect his farms and grazing lands. His Lord ship will stay ten days longer, and then proceed on a tour of visits. EDUCATION. —The close of the Christmas vaca tion generally b r i ngs w i t h i t no little anxiety among many families, respecting th e a ll - i mportant affair of education. This feeling is a l so atten d e d with considerable uncertainty, in fixing on an establishment in which the system pursued is such as will ensure their children a sound education, combined with that attention to their domestic comfort and general welfare, which is now so properly requ i red for the " rising genera tion." Theimportan ce of a good education it is impossible to overrate, as on that the whole of our future life depends. The present season ever brings such reflections to our mind, and the more we dwell on them, the more we think it impera tive on us to point out the means by which so great —so ines timable an advantage may be secured. Though much must always depend on a boy's own exertions, yet still more must be attributed to the abilities and proficiency of the teachers he is placed under, and the general system of instruction by them adopted. In these respects we have rarely ever seen a scho lastic establishment more calculated to effect all that can be desired, than that of Mr. T. M. Burt. With due regard to general proficiency, attention is also paid to the future desti nation of the youth ; and those intended for the medical pro fession or for the sea, go through the course of instruction most suitable to each. A regular naval instructor is engaged for teaching navigation, and the most efficient masters for every branch of liberal accomplishments. The department of the classics is directed by Mr. E. C. Brown, B. A. of Ox ford. The system of education being such as to cultivate each power of th e p u pil' s mind, there is no situation in lif e , whether connected w i t h commer cial pursuits, the church, law, medicine, or the navy, w hi c h he is not put into a position to fill with credit and success. The domestic arrangements of the school are under the immediate care of Mrs. Burt and her sister, and we can bear testimony to the uniform kindness and attention with which the pupils rre treated. LONDON : WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1838. Our Dublin Correspondent, of Monday evening, writes as follows :—" I have just learned that THOMAS MARTIN, Esq., M.P., and Captain OTLAIIERTy, have been dismissed from the Commission of the Peace, for their connection with the outrage at Outerard." In our columns of this day will be found a mass of very important and interesting intelligence from the Canadas. The success of the Royalists has exceeded our expectations. Several leaders of the insurgents have been made prisoners, and of the rest it is sup posed that the majority have fled across the frontier, and sought concealment in the United States. Among those who have been taken are Dr. WOLFORD NELSON, M. BOUCHETTE, late Editor of the Quebec Liberal, and MM. DESRIEVIER.S, and MOORES SAULT—aII men of violent principles, and great influ ence among the Republican party. M. PAPLNEAU and Mr. W. L. :' , IACKENZIR, late Editor of the Vin dicator, have escaped ; but it is said that M. PAPI NEAU'S private papers and correspondence have fallen into the hands of the Government, by means of which the ramifications of the revolt have all been discovered. But though these are favourable indications of a speedy termination of the civil war, we cannot console our selves with a hope that the struggle is so near a close as the Canadian Journals would incline us to believe. In the United States the rebels have met with sym pathy, in despite of the Proclamations of the Execu tive ; and even the New York Press is divided on the question of the propriety of any interference on the part of the citizens of the Federal Union. The Courrier and Enquirer condemn the rising in the Canadas ; whereas the Daily Express boldly main tains that the insurrection is just, and that all good citizens are in duty bound to succour the insurgents. The Nero Yorlc Morning Herald is more moderate ; hut it will he seen, from the following extract front that Journal of the 19th ult., that the Americans en tertain apprehensions as to the conduct of our Govern ment in the hour of victory. We deeply lament. that England should have ever so acted, as to justify fears ' 1 so disgraceful to the national character : " All the information we obtain impress us with the convic tion that the affair is settled for the present in both Provinces; and that a new organization must take place before the Pa triots can make even a stand. The outbreak was so miser ably arranged, or so promptly met ; so devoid of concert, or opposed with s uc h m ili tary s kill ; so comp l ete l y the effect of accident, cr expected and calculated upon—that its suppres sion has strengthened the bands of Government, and brought 'error and dismay into the minds of the rural population. It was confined within a circle of about twenty-five miles, which is now held by the Royal troops and the volunteers, who, as usual, are sanguinary and vindictive in the extreme. This is in human nature; the soldier acts in conformity to orders, and as a matter of business ; the volunteer from personal feelings, , mbittered by years of political strife, mutual revilings, and the breaking up of his business pursuits. " The fearful work of retribution is now commencing, and the blood of Lieutenant Wier and Mr. Chartrand—the one a British officer massacred by the insurgents while a prisoner of war, and the latter murdered in cold blood while engaged in his lawful avocations—is about to be atoned for. A gentle man, who was at Burlington en the Ilth (this day se'nnight), and who had just come from Montreal, states that he saw the prisoners. There were 20 marched under guard from the New Gaol, which is a mile or two out of the city—that soon after nine of them were marched back, and he was informed that the other eleven were sentenced to be shot. The day of execution was the 11th. " The following will serve to show the spirit of the English population—but cannot be taken as true to the letter. That the exasperatien against the insurgents is intense, must, of course, he the fact • but the wholesale slaughter indicated is at variance with the genius of the British Constitution under any contingencies, cr in any climate. Martial law is proclaimed, and the Tories are arresting the Patriots by hundreds in all parts of the district. They are also disarming every Frenchman in the provinces. The leaders have all absconded who were not arrested. General Brown was here last night, and took sage this morning south. " A gentleman direct from Canada, who may be relied on, says that the greatest concern of the French at present is (so far as he can judge) to secure personal safety. The Govern ment is waging a most unmerciful warfare against them. He thinks. from all he could learn, that many prisoners have al ready been executed, but not publicly--and as there are none but Tory presses, and as communication by mail is for the most part intercepted, they can carry on a blood) massacre in Montreal, while the people in the State remain ignorant of its nature and extent." Most sincerely do we hope that the British authori ties in the Lower Province will adopt such measures as will effectually check the perpetration of all reta liatory outrages, and that every lenity will be shown to those who have been led to take up arms against the Mother Country. We have reason to believe that this hope will not be disappointed. The Cana dian Royalist Press, hitherto so violent in its denun ciation of the rebels, has assumed a moderation of tone which can only be traced to the influence of the Governor-in-Chief. From the Montreal Herald of the 11th ult. we quote the following leading article, which, considering the politics of that journat, and the excited state of the Lower Province, is remarkably temperate in its language and spirit :—. " Every precaution has been taken, the mildest measures possible have been adhered to, from first to last, with a per tinacity which has stripped the rebels of the colour of a pre tence for their rebellion. In the eyes of the well-informed among our neighbours of the States, in those of our sister co lonists, and of the Government and Parliament and people at home, the whole course of the local Government admits of, we had almost said, more than the fullest justification on the score of moderation and forbearance. " We look forward to no wholesale process of hanging, drawing, and quartering' of the deluded victims of the rebel leaders. Late events have brought with them no especial ne•.v light' to our eyes, as to the character of the habitat's in general. We never made the egregious mistake of fancy ing, that because they were so completely and hoplessly the ignorant dupes of their leaders, therefore they could never be duped by them into actual rebellion. We do not now run into the opposite mistake of fancying, that because some of them have been made into rebels, therefore they are not dupes. We hope to see, and the moderation of the Government thus far assures us that we shall ace, the utmost possible degree of lenity displayed, so far as they may be concerned. For the leaders, they deserve no mercy. Sound policy forbids at once unnecessary vengeance, and foolish lenity. " But the province must be made a British colony I" yes—but not by the disfranchisement and degradation of every man with French blood in his veins. Proscription is not British, but the antipodes of all that is British. Can it ever create the British character in those who are its sub jects ? Can it ever annihilate a whole people to make room for another? A few hot heads may talk of proscription at a moment of high political excitement. No man with a grain of sense could ever think of it at any other. Education roust be made to raise the habitant from his present level. British law, and influence, and enterprise, must have free scope to act, for the improvement of the country and of all ranks and origins among its people. These may be called " conci liatory" and " tardy" measures. They are the only ones , Thich in the long run will not be found to be " half measures." That portion of the United States Press, which supports the Canadian insurgents, charges the British authorities with having already been guilty of the most horrible atrocities—a charge which the Royalists loudly prefer against the Revolutionists. To give our readers some idea of the spirit of acrimony which pervades the public journalists upon this question. We quote the following extract from an article in the New York Daily Express of tl-ie 18th ult., in answer to some observations reconner,ding a strict neutrality, and defending the conduct of our Government, which appeared in the leading columns of the Courrier and Inquirer of the day previou! 3 Of the Courrier's wish, that all Americanswho" embark" in this " Quizotic" " movement" may be soudly whipped—we can only say it is a Tory sent iment that can have no re sponse in an American heart. It is a sentiment treach erous and false to human lib. - 2rty—falso to our country — false to the principles of self-government—false to the memory of the Gallant Montgontery, and the brave Ameri cans, who preached liberty and died in proffering it, under the walls of Quebec. The " mild" and parental Govern ment of England over its Colonies ! Oh, read it in the bloody butcheries of the Indies, I Read it on the heights of Bunker Hill, when Charlesvown was in flames I Read it in the prison ships and gaols of our own New York ! Read it at St. Denis—written with the fire and the faggot there I Read it at St. Charles, on men roasted alive ! [After the battle of St. Charles, there was no mercy shown towards the Canadians : a very large number of them were summoned in a building at St. Charles, and set on fire; they were then wilfully roasted a'iivo by the British soldiers. The Montreal Herald does not tell us of this fact : but on the con trary, has suppressed tlse truth at least, if the soldiers who were there are to be believed ; many of them, three days after the engagement, told me the above. They also said they did not bury a man of the Canadians, swearing they were tired enough killing them, without taking the trouble to bury them—the pigs eat many of the bodies.—Montreal Corre spondence of the Philadelphia Inquirer.] Or hear it from the Montreal Gazette, which rec ommands " moral, POLITICAL, and JUDICIAL PROSCRIPTION—or from the Courrier, which says : " Special commission ought to be immediately issued for the trial of the present batch of imprisoned traitors. It would be ridiculous to FATTEN FELLOWS ALL WINTER FOR THE GALLOWS!" The following appeal to the cupidity of the A meri cans, which we copy from the same Journal, is likely to make a livelier impression upon the States than any recital of British atrocities, no matter where or when committed. We cannot close our eyes to the effect such language may hare ia rendering the proclamations of the PRESIDENT a dead letter by its effect upon the optics of certaim members of the Executive : As Americans we cannot shut our eyes to what we are to gain by the Independence of the Canadas, even while we urge upon the Government its duty of strict neutrality. Ist. An eternal fence from European attack in the rear and flank of Maine,:New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Penn sylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. 2d. A settlement, without trouble, of the North Eastern Boundary Question. 3d. The free navigation. of the St. Lawrence, (almost as important to the Northern. States, as the Mississippi is to the Southern and Western,) and then the free navigation of the St. John's, is oF the highest importance to Maine. 4th. The fisheries,—free and equal privileges in them,—a strengthening of our marine, and the crippling of the British marine. sth. The end of the British monopoly of the Fur Trade, and the settlement of many disputes we must, sooner or later, have about this trade in the Missouri Territory—on the Columbia river,—for with the loss of the Canadas, British empire is lost in America. 6th. The addition of thousands of miles of a new interior to the city of New York—the union by canal of New York harbour with the St. Lawrence River,—our own city, our own wharves, our own ships, our own merchants, our own labourers, made the channels and the.agents of all the trade of the immense British possessions in the interior of North America. These, it strikes us, are great questions, which no American can close his eyes to. _ . . We look forward with some anxiety to the course which Parliament will pursue with respect to the redress of grievances in the Lower Provinces. All will depend upon the degree of wisdom displayed by the Imperial Legislature. If Ministers allow- them selves to be blinded by passion ; and carried away by a furious loyalty, with a view to render them selves more popular with the Tory faction, the preservation of the disaffected Colonies will cost England more blood and treasure than they ever can be worth to the people of this country. Our Government must reform and conciliate ; terrorism will not do ; it will only drive the Canadians to despe ration. The Whigs have admitted that the Canadi ans are aggrieved ; and making all possible allowance for the ascendency of a few demagogues over a simple minded, ignorant people, their grievances must have been generally felt, or they never would have been de luded into the crime of taking up arms against the Mother Country. The Government of Portugal have laudably com menced an undertaking for that country which neither Whig nor Tory Ministers have ventured on for Eng land—the establishment of a rural police. The fear of a popular outcry like that against the New Poe t Law has, no doubt, had its effect on Lord JOHN RUSSELL ; and Sir ROBERT PEEL, notwithstanding thie: s complete success of his measure for the police of the metropolis, was too heavily pressed during his short Administration to attempt any plan, however beneficial, that might increase the popular odium against him. The Peninsula has for ages been noto rious for the insufficiency of its police, and the depre dations and murders committed by banditti. These crimes are so frequent in Spain, and so little heeded by the Government, that they are regarded as ordinary occurrences, and reports of one half of the cases ne ver reach the metropolis. Portugal, though not so bad in that respect, is still in a deplorable state. Even in peaceable times murders have been committed in the neighbourhood of Santarem, nay, at places on the Tagus, but a few miles from the capital ; and the criminals, to secure impunity, had only to secrete themselves for a time,lor retire to another district. During a civil war the evil necessarily increases to a frightful extent. It appears, from a return laid before the Cortes by the Home Minister, that in the course of the last six mouths not fewer than 830 murders, or attempts to murder, and 1,900 robberies, have been committed ; an d he calculated that in the year there had been in the whole of Portugal 3,550 assassinations, and 7,900 robberies. It remained for the Radical, the reckless, the revolu tionary Government of BANDEIRA to meet the evil, and devise some plan for abating such enormities ; and they have gone about the work with a deter mination which entitles them to the praise and gratitude of every friend of humanity. That they will succeed we have little doubt. No money is paid so willingly as that paid for the maintenance of a good police, and all men of property in Portugal, all who have any thing to lose, will find it for their interest to support the Government in a measure so necessary for the peace and security of the country. Wonders thicken in these times with the most amazing rapidity. The Tory SIBTIIORP now vies with the Radical HUME in enforcing public economy—the lawless de magogue O'CONNELL, to preserve good order, risks the enmity of his best friend s in Dublin—and the revolutionary Government of Portu gal, in league with " thriving slave-drivers," c'en riched peculators," and ccpardoned traitors," devotes itself to the arts of peace, to the improvement of the institutions, and the repose and security of the kingdom. At a meeting of the Brighton Conservative -Asso ciation, held on Monday evening last, the virtues of the Tories and the vices of the Whigs were expatiated on, with the usual eloquence and animation. All that the former said and did within Parliament or without it, was of course right ; while all the sayings and do ings of the latter, were equally, as a matter of course, wrong. In fact, the Whigs—for this was the tendency of the remarks made at the Brighton gathering— would never do right, till they quietly h an d ed over the reins of office to the Tories. Thi s was what the country expected from them ; and by so actin, only, could Ministers prove to the satisfaction of all wise and good citizens, that they were true patriots. Mr. MAcKINNON, after one or two gentle allusions of this nature, in the course of which he strenuously insisted on the political consistency of Sir ROBERT PEEL, and as strenuously on the multifarious i.IAIL . Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. I Arrived. 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(47:1? , 'Fttf Z r lle cZ=4 WITH WIIICII " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. rd this day quencies of the present Government, who had brought the country into a condition in which it was impossi ble it could continue much longer ;—Mr. MACKIN NON, we say, after a few common-places of this sort, suddenly quitted the level ground of mere sober dull ness, and spreading his wings, launched into the airy regions of imagination. In other words, he waxed poetical—a freak which we never should have ex pected from the Hon. Member for Lymington, for he has about as much fancy in his composition, as a steam engine. " There must be (quoth this new-born bard) a change in the affairs of the country. When he got up that morning there was a mist in the horizon, which cleared away towards noon. The mist was gone, and the sun shone in meridian splendour. Although John Bull was under a certain mist, and had been distracted between two parties, yet now the clouds began to dis pense, his natural good sense was returning, and he clapped his hands on his purse and said, he'd be d--d if he'd be humbugged any longer." Bravo Mr. MAC KINNON I Who, after this exalted outburst, shall say that we have not a poet in the House of Commons ? The Hon. Gentleman's high-flown, imaginative allusion to the mist, and the meridian splendor of the sun, so gracefully and gradually sobering down to the mntter of-fact, pot-house oath of John Bull, is a sample of the bathos in fancy, worthy of MARTINUs SCRIBLE RUS himself. But as poets are proverbially indiffe rent statesman—as it is one thing to bronze on Parnassus, and another to tread the thorny fields of politics—Mr. MACKINNON must take special care that his constituents do not address him in the language of his own John Bull, and tell him that " they'll be d--d if they'll be humbugged any longer I" We have known more surprising things than this happen, and the Horn. Member's speech is certainly not calculated to impress the Lymington electors with any very favourable no tion of his political sagacity. We throw out these remarks in no wanton spirit of spleen or irreverence— GOD forbid, for we dislike of all things to be severe on the vagaries of acknowledged genius !—but simply in the hope that they may have the effect of inducing the Lymington poet to moderate henceforth the exuberant sallies of his too-dazzling imagination. Mr. DAwsoN—who does not know Derry DAW SON. and knowing, does not appreciate ?—was as droll and sportive in his speech, as Mr. 'MACKINNON was elevated and poetical. If the one startled his Brighton audience, as though he were a rapt and inspired seer, the other convulsed them with laughter, as though he were a Merry- Andrew grinning through a horse-collar. " Ac cording to the ancient laws of Greece," said Mr. DAWSON, "senators usually went to the House with a rope about their necks ; and if the measures they brought in were just, the rope was taken from their necks ; but if they proved to be absurd, the rope was a pplied to the proper place." Fortunately for the Tories, the laws of Greece are not the laws of England ; or we do verily believe that there is not one Tory legislator, who has lived for the last thirty years, that would not have died of strangulation We are by no means in human in our nature ; but we cannot say that we that we should have been altogether heart-broken, had the faction's exit from life been effected by such means! Letters from Lisbon of the sth inst. have been re ceived this morning!. On the 2d the Lisbon Mer cantile Association called a public meeting of their body, at which the Members of the Cortes and Foreign merchants were invited to attend, with a view to deli berate upon the present financial state of Portugal. The majority agreed that it was incumbent on the Go vernment to take some step to relieve the pressing wants of the Treasury ; but no one ventured to support the Ministerial scheme for issuing three hundred con tos of rein of paper money to be employed as so much current coin. They seemed to apprehend that if paper was once made a legal tender, the Government would not stop with the supply of its more pressing wants—that a system of ruinous extravagance would be the inevitable consequence. The meeting separated without coming to any resolution, except that another meeting would be called to adopt a petition to the Cortes on the subject. The Miguelite insurgents on the Spanish frontier have been defeated with great slaughter by the QUEEN'S troops, under Brigadier-General MENDEZ. On the IGth the Miguelite bands, commanded by MoNTEGo, were attacked by a Spanish force, who killed forty of them, and captured the treasures collected by the rebels together with a great store of arms and military accoutrements. At Lisbon it was supposed that the neck of the insurrection was completely broken by this seasonable victory. The whole of the Paris journals cf Sunday and Monday have been received. They bring no intelli gence of any moment. The discussion on the address opened in the Chamber of Deputies on Monday, but up to 3 o'clock no amendment of any importance was moved. The defeat of Basilio Garcia, on the Ebro, is confirmed. The following are extracts : " News has been received — from St. Sebastian of the ap proaching arrival in that port of steam-boats to take back to England the discharged soldiers of the Legion. It appears that the cavalry and artillery which were attached to the legion remain in the service of the Spanish government, which has provided the necessary funds. " If we may credit another private letter, the Spanish go vernment has sent the necessary instructions for the re-organi zation of the whole of the English Legion. " A Journal publishes an extract from a letter from Madrid, which says The Spanish Government has resolved to ask for the re-organization of the British Legion, and it is said to have already given the necessary instructions ; but it is not yet known whether the Cabinet of St. James's will authorize the promotion of the new legion on the same basis as the old one ; it is affirmed, on the contrary, that it will only grant the creation of an auxiliary corps.' " Though the official_ details of the defeat of the Carlist expe dition had not yet been received at Bayonne on the 3d, yet it seems that the defeat was complete. The other expedi tion under Merino, and the Marquis de Boleida, acting at the same time with Gureia, had advanced some leagues beyond the Ebro, by way of Trees and Villa. Perlatta has been ob liged to retrogade, and return to this side of the Ebro, in con sequence of the rapid march of Firman Iriarte's column, which was advancing from Meria del Pomar, into Old Castile to meet them. The Moniteur of the Bth has no official part. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, JAN. 8. Five per Cents.. I.SI 10111 sc. Four per Cents., 1011. 25c. Three per Cents., 78f. 95c. 90c. 85c. Bank Actions, 2,560 f. nente de Naples, 98f. sc. 9Sf. 9Sf. Sc, Roman Five per Cents., 100 3 4% 101. Spanish Actives, 20% 21. Spanish Passives, 4%. Belgian Bank, 1,485 f. 1,490 f. 1,487 f. 50e. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 19. Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 53 3 4. Haytian Loan, 5801. 3110 f. 13XCIIANGe ON LONDON. Onemonth, paper, -f. -c. •, money, 25f. 47%e. Three months, paper, 26f. c. ; money, 251. 30r. LAST PRICES, Five per Cents. 10Sf. 15c. Three per Cents. 79f. Bank Actions, 2,5501. Romans, 100%. Belgian Bank, 1,427 f. 50c. Portuguese Three per Cents., 19%. Spanish Actives, 21. Spanish Passives, 4%. Spanish Differes, 5%. Haytian Loan, 3901. Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 53%. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-Vresnva, Dec. 31 Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Hank Shares -Allgemeine Zeitung, Jan. 4. The Countess of Essex still continues indisposed. We hare accounts from Bombay to the end of Oc tober. The prospects of the cotton crops were generally fa vourable. There had been less activity in piece goods, which was attributed in a great measnre to the near approach of the Dewallee bolydays, and little business would be cone until they were over. The price of metal generally was firmly main tained, with a tendency to advance on some descriptions. The stock of woollens was more than sufficient for the inactive demand ; and there was an abundant supply of wines and spirits, which were offered at very low prices. In the Money Market Government securities were inquired: after. The ex change had not undergone any material alteration. There was a slight reaction in the freights to England, which were quoted at 43 to 56 per ton ; but it was far from being abundant. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DRAT., JAN. 9.—Wind E N.E. strong breeze.—Came down from the River and sailed the Ellen, Dixon, for Sydney ; Creole, Dalrymple, for Brazils; Apolline, Rogers, and the John Pink, Nixon, for Jamaica. PORTS➢tOUTH, JAN, 9.—Wind N.E., blows hard, squally with snow.— Arrived the Soho steamer, Bain, from Falmouth ; Jean, Loney, from Emsade. The pilot boat, No. 29, has put a pilot on boart the Apolline for Jamaica, which ship will be in next tide. The Isabella, Monro, for Bengal will proceed to-morrow morning. -Sailed her Majesty's ship Tyne, for Cork; Isabella, Lampton, for Hobart Town. Passed by, the Creole, Dalrymple, for Bahia . . . _ PLymotrrn, Jax. S and 9.—Wind E., strong.—Arrived the Brothers, Lewis, from Swansea; Spermaceti, Allen, from St. John's, New Bruns. wick; Dorothea, Hoppe, from Dantzic, with loss of anchor and chains in the Downs; Ardent, Mackey, from Belfast. Sailed the Rinalva Manjarka, Stayers, from Marseilles. _ . . . FALMOUTH, JAN. B.—Wind E., fresh gales and squally.— Arrived, the City of Londonderry, Ingledue, from London; Providence, Richards, from Padstan ; Charles, Pollard, from Swansea; Sirius (steamer), Mowle, from London—left for Cork ; Atalanta, Banks, from London; Marshall, Birch, from London; and Charles, Way, from Lon don. Sailed the Regard, Laverock, for Limerick; Asia, Stead, for Bahia; and City of Londonderry (steamer), for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar. FALAtoirrn, JAN. O.—Arrived the Tagus (steamer), from Gibraltar— left 31st ult., Cadiz Ist inst., Lisbon 4th inst., Oporto and Vigo sth inst.; and Jeune Theodore, Guilleme, from St. Doiniago. Off port, the Westminster, Moore, from New York. CORK, JAN. 7.—Arrived the Sarah, Sharp, from Newfoundland; and Mary Laing, Shearer, from Honduras. _ _ _ DUBLIN, JAN. B.—Arrived the Margaret (steamer), from London. HULL, JAN. 9.—Arrived the Ivanhoe, Fairburn, from Gottenburg ; and Peter and Jane, Fleer, from Gottenburg. _ LIVERPOOL—Arrived off port, the Medora, from Mohile ; and Mary Ann and Martha, from Newfoundland. COWES, JAN. 9.—Arrived the Tintirer, Thorp, from Buenos Ayres. Sumps, JAQ. B.—Entrepot, bound to France, has put back to this port, leaky. The Juno, Carr, from Laguna to Liverpool, was totally destroyed by fire about the 24th November, whilst at anchor near the Orange Keys. The Marie Esperancc, Forest, from St. John's, New Brunswick to Quebec, was lost on the Magdalen Islands the Bth November. The Bon Pere, Juge, from Laguira, has put in to Havannah in dis tress, and will be sold with her cargo The Gazelle, Whippin, from Sierra Leone, Put into Lisbon, with da. mage, bound to London. The Promptidas, from Oporto, put into Lisbon, with damage, bound to Rio Janeiro. Her Majesty's ship Inconsistant, with troops for Canada, sailed from Cork on the 7th instant. The Sophia, Easton, from Quebec to the Clyde, is totally lost in the river St. Lawrence; mate, carpenter, and one seaman saved. MARKETS.-(THIS DAY ) CORN EXCHANGE. There are this week good arrivals of both Grain and Flour. As not much Wheat was left over from Monday, the factors ask more money for this article, but the buyers do not comply with higher prices. Barley is still plentiful, and very dull at Monday's terms. Beans, Peas, and Oats are unaltered. Flour remains as last reported. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Flour English I 3,600qrs 16,900 qrs. 2,( - 10 qrs 9,t00 :ache. Irish -55 6,900 Foreign I - 336 NEWGATE AND LEADENFIALL. Supplies of killed meat of all kinds, both town and country, were good ; and owing to the first trade, were brisk. Prices are very firm. Beef, 2s. Bcl. to 3s. 6d.: Mutton, 2s. Bd. to 3s Bd. ; Veal, 4s. to 55.4 d.; Pork, 4s. to ss. ; Irish, 3s. to 3s. 6d. Game and Poultry in good supply, and trade lively. Prices have a tendency to rise. Pheasants, 3s. 6d. and 4s. each ; Hares, 2s. fid. to 3s. 6d. ; Partridges, Is. 6d. to 2s. each ; Turkeys, 4s. 6d. to 12s. ; Grouse, 2s. to 3s. 6d. each ; Fowls, 2s. to 3s. 6d. ; Geese, ss. to 7s. 6d.; Ducks, 9.5. to 3s. ; Chickens, Is. 9d, to 2s. 6d. ; Wild Ducks, 9d. to Is. 3d. ; Guinea Fowls, 2s. to 3s. each : Woodcocks, 3s. to 4s. 6d. each. Eggs scarce and higher-Bs. 6d. to 10s. 6d per 120. PROVISION MARKET. The cold weather has caused trade in this department to be brisker, and holders are not so disposed to sell at former prices as they were. Nothing can, however, be quoted as actually advanced but Dutch Butter, which has risen 2s. per cwt. The top price is 1063. The stocks of geode in this market are generally heavy. HOP MARKET. Hops are in steady demand at the late advance. TALLOW MARKET. A steady business is doing in P. Y. C. at 485., but the high price checks the demand. Oils arc just in the same state as we quoted them yesterday. FINISH OF THE TEA SALE. The Tea sale is concluded ; and out of the 180,000 packages put up, 50,000, or thereabouts, have been sold. We have so frequently quoted the prices, as to supersede the necessity for doing it again. COLONIAL MARKETS. The imports, exports, and deliveries for home consumption, are now very slender; the public sales to-day are but few, and of small amount. They consisted of a small parcel of Bengal Sugar, nine small parcels of Coffee, some of them very slow, and a little lot of Saltpetre. No pur chases are made but for actual want; and the tendency of prices is down ward generally, except for Rice, Rum, Pepper, Pimento, and Cotton. Sugar we should quote 6d.to Is. per cwt. lower than our prices of yesterday, fcr all sorts. Coffee of some sorts is rather easier, and so is Saltpetre. West India Molasses are held for 31s. No variation in Tea. It is estimated that the stocks of most articles of Colonial produce are less by from 3,000 to 4,006 tons, than they were at this time last year. The porta are now all closed, and the markets for produce are devoid of animation generally. For to-morrow the sales are nearly all Drugs. There is nothing doing to-day by private contract in the Colonial markets. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols, which closed yesterday at 927 1 for the Account, opened heavy this morning at 92 to 921 ; and for the February Account, 921 a. The report from Falmouth by the Tagus steamer, arrived from Gibral tar, of a battle between the Russians and Turks—naval—has no doubt had an effect on the funds ; but as yet we cannot give much credit to this report, and must wait for further information on this subject. The London line packet ship from New York, the Westminster, has arrived off Falmouth, with New York papers of the 20th December, bringing interesting information from Canada, which is fully detailed in another part of the paper; it is of a favourable nature. The rebels are defeated at all points, and troops are marching against them from all directions. Some of their principal leaders have been taken. Exchequer Bills, 21d., 52 54 ; Bank Stock, 204 205 ; India Stock, 261 i ; Spanish Active closed at 199 201 ; opened 201 with Coupons ; Portuguese closed at 241 30 ; opened 291 g ; Three per Cents., 191 1 ; Brazil, 721 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521 1. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 2044, itntha Stools °6l 6034 2 par Cent. Cod al% 1 % :btto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons tif South Sea Stork 3% per Cent......... ........ 93% j Old Annuities - Ditto Kee 98%% 9 New Ditto New 3 1 ,2 per Cent 9.0-fi% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... New 5 pet Cent., . — Exch. Bills, E 1, 01,0 .. 82 55 um. Bank LoneAnnuitiestoexeire Ditto soe 52 55 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 14 13-1634 Ditto Small Oct. 10. 1859 Ditto Commercial — pm. Jan. 5, 1860 l4 7-16th Ditto Advertised — —pm Jan. 5,188 i, ....... 13ar-le Stock for Account April 5, 18:4• ...... India Stock for Account...... .. Jan. 1870 —lConsols for Acconnt... ...... 92 % %l A i PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, Austrian Bones B tigian Bonds — Ditto Account ...... _ i)itto Account Portuguese Bonds 62% Brazilian Bonds ~........ ...... 724% Ditto Account Ditto Account Ditto New Bonds 2 9 ,4 Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto Account Ditto Account ......... Dlito, 3 per cent 19;2 Million Bonds ..... Prussian Bonds . Ditto Account C ilumbian Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Account ...... • Ditto Metallic...... Cilutnbian Bonds, ...... 21% Spanish Bonds Ditto Account ..... 21% Ditto Account ...... , — Dinish Bonds ....., 73% 2% 3 Ditto Bonds, 1838. 2O Ditto Account ........ Greek ..... French, 5 per —f —e. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — 4 per cent Ditto Account ......... 3 per cn-nt. —l —c. Mexican Bon4s, 5 per Exchang- Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. Ditto Account — Ditto, 5 rer cent 101 ; 1 , 2 % 14 N evoli tan ......... Ditto Account... FRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Paid. Per Share Real del Monte Mining Co., Registered 63/. Ins. 6d. Ditto Unregistered flrighton Railway Company Lendon and Birmingham Railway Company 9O Ditto Shares 5 I endow and Greenwich Railway Company 2O London and Southampton (New) Railway 5 London and Croydon Railway Company , anchester and Leeds Railway Company North Midland Railway Company 25 Australasia Bank 4O British North American Bank COURSE OF EXCH. Amstercam C.F. 12 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam U. 12 st e Antwerp... tlamkarg. M.B. 13 14 Altana__ Paris, 3 days' sight 25 Ti Ditto 3 Ms. 26 0 Marseilles. Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M 153% PeterAbuigh, ruble 3 Us. 10 Berlin Vienna, effective fl 2 M. 10 13 4g 4 162 26 20N 15% 23% 59 Crieste ditto lO 14 Madrid 35 35 Bilboa 34 Flareelona Seville 34 su ir% INGE YESTERDAY. Gibraltar 46 Leghorn 32 Genoa 26 15 Milan..., 3l Venice 46 Naples 3!) Palermo per oz. IS% Lisbon 53 Orerto 52% Rio Janeiro 29 Bahia Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight ll4 Cork l)4 %Z. PRICE OF BULLION, PER 0. Portugal Gold, coin £3 14 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons New Dollars Silver, bars. standard o_ 4 11% HALF-PAST ONE. (Posted at the North and South American Coffeehouse.) FROM CANADA. The long expected movement from Grand I3rule is at last made. This morning the force destined for the expedition left town, consist ing, with that already posted at St. Martin, of the Royal regiment under Lieutenant Wetherall, the 32d regiment under the venerable Colonel Maitland, the 83d regiment under Colonel Dundas, a strong force of the Royal artillery, with six guns, nnder Major Jackson, and a strong force of volunteers. Sir John Colborne, Commander-in-Chief, leaves town at two o'clock, to command the expedition. Consols have rather improved since the above, and may be quoted at present 92i for the Account; Excbequer Bills, 55 to 55, prem. 2i; India Bonds, 54 ; Bank Stock, 20.11. Spanish Active, 20, with Coupons ; .Portuguse, 29 ; Three per Cents. 19 1 ,1, ; Brazilian, 721 ; Dutch Two-and-Half, 52 3-8. Consols for the Aelsonnt, 921. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. BERLIN, Dsc. 28.—1 t has been reported to-day in many companies, that in consequence of the Pope's alloca tion of the 10th of this month, a resolution has been taken in the Ministry, and already approved by the King, that Dr. Bansen, Prussian ambassador at Rome, shall be immediately recalled from his post, and all diplomatic intercourse with the Holy Sec be broken off. It will hardly be possible for the for s ome t i me, whether this report public is to be toerkitniroewl'y believed.forcertn ai, THE BONAPARTE FAMILY.— —The Presse, in noticing the arrival of the Prince de Musignano, at Paris, ob serves, " Prince Antoine, another son of Lucien Bonaparte, has lately arrived in London from America, and is also anxious to visit France. Queen Caroline, the widow of Murat, is residing in Paris; the daughter of Lucien Bona parte, Madame Wyse, is also living in this city ; Queen Hor tense has been twice suffered to come into France on account of her son ; and a very short time ago the Princess Maria of Orleans danced at Stuttgard with two sons of Jerome Bona parte. All these facts prove that the government of France is inclined to ameliorate the operation of the law or exile passed against the Bonaparte family." MANSION-HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.) John Roberts, appeared upon a summons to account for detaining the property of Sarah Collins. The complainant said she formerly lodged in the house of Mr. Ro berts ; she left last May leaving a balance of rent due to the amount of 2/. 4s. She then left five sheets, six towels, and a glass in his posses sion. She had since paid the money and sent for her goods. The answer to the first application was that the things were at the wash. 'The LORD Mayoa—What business had they to have them at the washing—had they a right to use them ? Mrs. Collins said they had, for she had given them leave to use them until she came for them. On sending again, Mr. Roberts said Mr, Collins must send to Mr. Roberts for them, and shut the door in the face of her messenger. Mr. Lewis was that unfortunate personage, and deposed to the fact of being treated with so much indignity. Mr. Roberts, in answer to the charge said, the property had been given to his wife by Mrs. Collins, for her kindness and attention while she lodged with them. Mr. Collins vehemently denied that she had done anything of the kind. The LORD MAYOR said the property must be given up. It was clear that if the case was as it was now attempted to be made, the answer to the first application would have been different. Mr. Roberts said some of the things had been worn out—they had been in use for all parties for two years. The LORD MAYOR—You must go and give up all that remains—as You had liberty to use them, you are not bound to replace thos. which. are worn out. The driver of one of Warburton's omnibuses appeared to answer the complaint of Joseph Ewings, an officer to the Animals' Friend Society. The complainant said on Thursday last, he saw the driver, then present, coming over from the Bank to the Mansion House. He was driving a black horse, which was all in sores upon every part of the skin which was touched by the harness. Itwas evidently unfit to be worked, and he was using the whip unsparingly upon it. The driver denied the charge, and called Thomas Cooper, a veterinary surgeon, who has the care of all War burton's horses. The man at the bar had not a black horse to drive. He knew the one in question, which was a bay one- It was very thin in the skin, and they had padded the whole of its breeching—besides it was so high spirited that no harness would hold him if touched with the whip. The man, too, had a most excellent character. The LORD MANOR had known him nearly twenty years, and had always considered him as one of the best on the road. As there was positive evidence of a mistake upon the part of the complainant, the summons was discharged. The Society was no doubt doing good, but its officers must be more particular, and not get up cases. Dismissed. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) SHOPLIFTING.—Edward Ferrick was committed for having, yester day evening, stolen from the counter of Mr. White, Burleigh_street, some pieces cf leather, value 20s. AN ELDERLY APPRENTICE.—A young man complained to the Ma gistrate that his master, Mr. Moore, hatter, of Bond-street, had not given him work for some days. The following curious conversation ensued : Minimum—Are you apprenticed ? Complainant—Yes. MAGISTRATE—How old are you ? Complainant—Twenty-three. MAGISTRATE—What premium was paid ? Complainant—Nothing. I receive a guinea a week wages. AIAGISTRATE—What! a guinea a week wages, and an apprentice ? Why, when were you apprenticed ? After you had reached the ago of 21 ? Complainant—Yes. MAGISTRATE—Then it is a mere contract for work. Your " ap prenticeship" is not such a one as we can interfere in. You are now old enough to take care of yourself. I should adviso you to make it up with your master. Applicant bowed and retired. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) AMUSEMENT ON ran ICE.--A ragged little chummy named John Bolton, was charged by Thomas Gould, a constable of St, Martin's in the Fields, with making slides within the enclosure of the church yard, at eight o'clock this morning. The complainant stated, that ever since the frost set in, a number of urchins daily squeeze them selves between the tails, to the annoyance of the entire neigbourhood, and having received various complaints in consequence, he laid the case be. fore the churchwardens, wh o ordered him to bring any of the miscreants he could apprehend, before the magistrates. Every attempt he had daily made proved fruitless, as the urchins made their escape like a swarm of rats through the railings. This morning, however, chummy seemed to have eaten a heartier breakfast than usual, for he found a diffi culty in squeezing through the rails, and was, to his great surprise captured. The Prisoner said, business was slack, and as there was no fire at home, he went to the churchyard to warm himself at eliding, with other boys. Sir F. ROE told the prisoner he should put in bail, as the church wardens had a right to keep the churchyard clear. . The Complainant suggested that if the prisoner was severely repri manded he would not repeat the annoyance, for his mother was a poor widow, and he was her only sunort. . . Sir F. ROE directed that his mother should be sent fur, to promise to keep him in future, to his professional avocations. QUEEN-SQUARE.-(THIS DAY.) Robert Elliott, a labourer, in the employ of Mr. Bramah, the en gineer, was charged upon suspicion of stealing Sib. of gun metal, the property of his employer. Police constable Clifton, of the 13 division, stated that he met the prisoner yesterday evening in Orchard street, Westminster. Witness saw him go into several shops and offer something for sale, but in every instance was unsuccessful; he then asked the prisoner what it was he had been offering. for sale, but he refused to tell him, and witness took • him into custody, and searching him found in his pockets two pieces of gun metal. The prisoner said that he had found them in a house in which he had been recently living. Witness took him to the station house, and afterwards ascertained that the metal was the property of Mr. Bramah. Thomas Fry, foreman to Mr. Braman, stated that the prisoner had been employed by him for about six weeks yesterday. The prisoner was emp!oyed in removing some gun metal from one part of the building to another, and witness has no doubt that he secreted the metal produced. Witness then produced two pieces of metal, which, upon being fitted with the other two pieces found on the prisoner formed an exact square, the form in which the metal is cast. The witness stated that he could£ swear to the metal being his emWoyer's property. Mr. BURRELL carefully examined the pieces of metal, when placed in conjunction, and said he had no doubt upon his mind as to their iden tity; he then asked what sort of character the prisoner bore. Witness—A very good one previously. The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and Mr. BURRELL said I shall fine him 5/. for illegally possessing, or in default two months imprisonment. The thermometer this morning at nine stood at 25, and the barometer at 30. 14., with a north-east wind. HANOVER, JAN. 3.—By a Royal ordinance, which has appeared in the No. of the Collection of the Laws, published to-day, the jus detract us between Hanover and Swe den is abolished. THE AUGUSTAN AGE OF FRANCE.—" Mr. James's Life and Times of Louis the Fourteenth,' contains the most ample account," says the Spectator, " which, within our knowledge, has appeared of the Court Intrigues of the wits, statesmen, and beauties, and of the civil broils which form the history of France during this interesting period. His nar rative is full, clear, and satisfactory: while his pages are ani mated by many graphic scenes, striking anecdotes, and traits of individual character, which give a lively idea of the state of society that brilliant age. Without any sacrifice of the correctness or solidity of the historian, he occasionally shows the hand of the novelist in the dramatic effect he has given to some of the most remarkable incidents. He appears to have been dili gent in his researches, and judicious in his choice of authori ties ; the work indeed, a valuable contribution to our his toric literature." [This new work, by Mr. James, abounds is anecdotes, and in entertainment for all classes of readers ; it is, in fact, not merely a valuable addition to sterling literature, but also one of those fascinating books that (like the Letters of Walpole and Lady Mary Wortley Montague) are always remembered and recurred to with delight.] The wardrobe of King William the Fourth is to lee sold. It would seem that everything belonging to the de ceased Monarch is to be disposed of. A respectable trades man in Bridges-street, Strand, has possession of the wardrobe, which comprises a splendid collection of regimentals and pri vate clothes. There are many Admiral's uniforms, which are of a costly description, in which the kind-hearted King de lighted to appear. There are also swords and a variety of other articles ; some to be sold for comparatively small sums, especially boots, and those who wish to walk in the steps of the sailor King may now indulge their laudable desire. SECOND-HAND SILVER WATCHES. A variety of some dozens may be selected from, price Two Guineas each ; some rather more modern, Two and a Half Guineas each ; and an assortment quite equal to new, Three Guineas each. The whole have been carefully examined, and are warranted. T. COX SAVORY, Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London, Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street. N.B. Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange. BIRTHS. On the 7th inst., in Chester-square, Mrs. J. Harman, of a son. At Highgate, on the 6th inst., the lady of N. T. Wetherell, Esq., surgeon, of a son. At the residence of his Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief, Madras, Sarah, wife of Captain B. Forster, of a son. MARRIED. At St. Pancras New Church, on the 9th inst., Thomas Henry Cooper, Esq., of Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square, to Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. Alderman Lainson, of Euston-square. On the 6th inst., at the Church of the Savoy, Mr. Geo. Smith, of Great Charlotte-street, Biackfriars-road, to Maria, only daugh ter of Mr. George Downing, of Nelson-square. On the 4th inst., at the parish church, Blackburn, James Imray, Esq., of Brixton, Surrey, to Anne, youngest daughter of the late R. H.lton, Esq., Darwen-lodge. On the 28th ult., at Llanwrst, the Rev. J. Burleigh James, to Mary Lloyd, eldest surviving daughter of the late Rev. J. Lloyd Jones, of Plas Madoc, Denbighshire. On the 6th inst., at St. Michael's, Stamford, John Bentall, Esq., of Craven-street, Strand, to Frances, daughter of M. Roos, Esq., of Stamford. DIED. On the 29th of September, at Kamptee, Captain Charles Natt ing, Madras European Regiment, son of J. G. Natting, Esq., of East Dulwich. At the Priory, Hcmerton, on the 9th inst., Sarah Martha, wi" dow of Samuel Amory, Esq., late of Clcment's-lane, London, in her 76th year. On the sth inst., at Brentwood, Essex, aged 76, John Sadler , Esq., forme r ly o f t e Island of Trinidad. On the 7th inst., at Park-terrace, Highbury, Jane, wife of Mr. J. Atkinson, aged 69. On the sth inst. at Epsom, Mr. Ann Hull, aged 81. On the 7th inst., Ann, relict of Richard Lake, Esq., late of Stratford-green. aged 72. On the sth inst., at Hampstead, Mr. Thomas Cuvelje, of South ampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, aged 37. On the sth inst., in Portland-place, Eugenia, the wife of S. G. Smith, Esq., aged 34. .... :._:,,,,y , s'LWJLAPV.•INM. , VfeI,,,r3KM-T2UIN.aI..).IIfGIfirPFYJICZ• _1.11217,5r -' --- London: Printed and Published by 111URDO YOUNG, of b. ° ' 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 11`), Strand, in the county f Aliddlesex.—Wednestlay, January, 10, 1835. , L ON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, MS.